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Binance Nigeria Money Laundering Trial Delayed; Fmr FTX Europe Head Pays $1.5M for Titanic Memento
Binance Nigeria Money Laundering Trial Delayed; Fmr FTX Europe Head Pays $1.5M for Titanic Memento
"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, including the delay of Binance Nigeria's money laundering trial t...
Binance Nigeria Money Laundering Trial Delayed; Fmr FTX Europe Head Pays $1.5M for Titanic Memento

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Sees First-Ever Day of Outflows
BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Sees First-Ever Day of Outflows
BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF product IBIT recorded its first-ever day of outflows on Wednesday, with $36.9 million exiting the fund. According to data source Farside Investors...
BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Sees First-Ever Day of Outflows

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BlackRock Sees Sovereign Wealth Funds, Pensions Coming to Bitcoin ETFs
The asset manager has been helping educate pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds about the new spot bitcoin ETF products, BlackRock’s head of digital assets sai...
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RWA Tokenization Firm Securitize Raises $47M Led by Fund Partner BlackRock
BlackRock and Securitize last month teamed up to create the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, which may prove to be geared toward RWA tokenization
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BlackRock's BUIDL Becomes Largest Tokenized Treasury Fund Hitting $375M, Toppling Franklin Templeton's
BlackRock's first tokenized offering, created with Securitize, has captured almost 30% of the $1.3 billion tokenized Treasury market in just six weeks.
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HBAR Foundation said "BlackRock fund is tokenized," Crypto Twitter heard "BlackRock has tokenized fund." (Wikimedia Commons)
Hedera's HBAR Doubles as Market Misinterprets BlackRock's Involvement in Tokenization, Then Falls 25%
The market gave back some of its earlier gains after realizing BlackRock wasn't directly involved in the tokenization on Hedera's blockchain.
HBAR Foundation said "BlackRock fund is tokenized," Crypto Twitter heard "BlackRock has tokenized fund." (Wikimedia Commons)

Inflows into the spot bitcoin ETFs have recently been unable to keep up with the still speedy pace of exits from Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust. (Jim Wilson/Unsplash)
Spot Bitcoin ETF Hype Dies Down, Normalcy Sets In
It's hardly unusual for ETFs of any ilk to go through periods of seeing no fresh money on a net basis, explained an analyst.
Inflows into the spot bitcoin ETFs have recently been unable to keep up with the still speedy pace of exits from Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust. (Jim Wilson/Unsplash)

Investment pros gathered here in Miami, and many trashed bitcoin. (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
There Are Many Bitcoin Critics Left in Finance, Despite BlackRock's Newfound Love
At a recent gathering of investors in Miami, skepticism remained high even after finance titan BlackRock's shift toward touting the original cryptocurrency.
Investment pros gathered here in Miami, and many trashed bitcoin. (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Ondo price on April 11 (CoinDesk)
Ondo Spikes 8% as Ondo Finance Tests Instant Conversion From BlackRock's Tokenized Fund to USDC
Stablecoin issuer Circle introduced a new smart contract function earlier Thursday to allow near-instant, around-the-clock redemptions from BlackRock's BUIDL fund for USDC sta...
Ondo price on April 11 (CoinDesk)

BlackRock's corporate office in New York, New York. (Jim.henderson/Wikimedia Commons)
BlackRock Adds Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, UBS as APs for Bitcoin ETF
Authorized participants in ETFs are responsible for the creation and redemption process of the fund through which they create liquidity.
BlackRock's corporate office in New York, New York. (Jim.henderson/Wikimedia Commons)